Biomass power plant begins operations at university
Eastern Illinois University (EIU) and Honeywell (NYSE: HON) started the school's Renewable Energy Center (REC), one of the largest university biomass installations in the country. The REC is a 19,000-square-foot…
Air gen
You might say that the "Air-gen" device being pioneered by Yun Lao and Derek Lovley and their teams makes electricity out of thin air. He suggests that in his thirty…
Bio-inspired structures help provide bone replacement materials
A new approach to producing bone replacement materials based on cells that grow around and inside them has been developed by a team from the University of Birmingham in…
Woody approach to recycling concrete
For all its incredibly diverse array of uses, concrete is a problematic material when it comes to disposal at the end of useful life of a building or other structure.…
Naturally inspired ‘green’ membranes clean up
‘Green’ membrane fabrication process for sustainable membrane separations. Removing contaminants like heavy metal ions, dye molecules, and salt compounds from water is essential for providing clean drinking supplies and treating…
Alternating peptides produce two-layered nanofibers
This image is an adaptation of a computer simulation of the CATCH(+) and CATCH(-) mixture of peptides. A team of researchers has verified that it is possible to engineer…
Studying packed polymers at oil-water interface could lead to new biomaterials
Researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the University of Tennessee tracked polymer self-assembly at the liquid-liquid interface in real time, as shown in this image. Researchers at Oak…
New graphene-based material self-assembles into vascular structures
Close-up of a tubular structure made by simultaneous printing and self-assembly of graphene oxide and a protein. An international team of scientists, led by Alvaro Mata at the University…
Remote battery charging using hydrogels
With electronic devices such as insulin pumps, pacemakers and implantable hearing aids being increasingly used for medical treatment, a collaborative study at King Abdullah University of Science & Technology…
Making nanomaterials work in 3D cancer theranostics
Cancer researchers are increasingly using three-dimensional models of tumors - 3D cell cultures - in diagnostics and so-called theranostics. Researchers writing in the journal Applied Materials Today, suggest that…
